Present Like a Pro
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"Highlighted and full-of-notes, Present Like a Pro has found a cherished home in my library. Your insights and encouragement continue to enrich my professional life."
-Toby Causby, Leadership and Teambuilding Consultant, Chicago
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PRESENT LIKE A PRO
Cyndi Maxey, CSP, and Kevin E. O'Connor, CSP
Rave Reviews from Publisher's Weekly
Targeting managers, salespeople, professional speakers and even best men preparing wedding toasts, communications and leadership consultants Maxey and O'Connor provide useful advice and moral support to anyone who is about to speak up. Through judicious peppering of personal stories, they demystify the near-universal fear of speaking in public, while offering potential speakers at all skill levels encouragement and practical advice. The guide is organized for ease of navigation in short, snappy chapters, each concluding with a boldfaced summary of key points-a boon to time-crunched presenters. Among numerous pointers, the authors emphasize practicing your speech, especially in front of someone or by timing and taping yourself. The authors conclude that any speech is "all about you in conversation with the audience"; they stress the importance of knowing your audience and their language, achieving rapport with repetition and with stories, and making an immediate connection with a creative introduction. Though some of their advice is common sense (e.g., attend to your appearance), inexperienced speechmakers in particular will find this manual instructive.
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It's Your Move: Dealing Yourself the Best Cards
in Life and Work |
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Cyndi Maxey and Jill Bremer
Life is like a card game...
and you have the power to deal yourself the winning hand!
In It's Your Move, image and self-improvement
specialists Cyndi Maxey and Jill Bremer use the analogy of
life as a card game to introduce you to powerful strategies
for improving both your business and personal life... no matter
what cards you are dealt.
As in any good game, life
offers you multiple options for achieving greatness: listening,
learning, attitude, style, balance, flexibility and many more.
Maxey and Bremer deliver simple, proven techniques for taking
control of your life--presented in the form of a card game.
You will follow sample players as they discover their "perfect
hands," while learning how to maximize your own strengths
and play the game of life with wisdom, courage, strategy,
timing and teamwork. Learn the rules of today's game of life--and
when to break them.
Empower yourself to master dozens
of simple techniques to maximize effectiveness and achieve
your dreams--without elaborate plans or expensive programs.
The authors offer guidance to help you track your progress
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Lyerly,
Barry and Cyndi Maxey, Training from the Heart: Developing
Your Natural Training Abilities to Inspire the Learner and Drive
Performance on the Job, ASTD, 2000.
"Best Seller...ASTD Publications
2001-2002"
This book shows its readers how to find their "training
heart," and then use this discovery to create a better
climate for learning in which learners actually apply the lessons
from the classroom to the job. |
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About the Book Training From The Heart |
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a great thing. I'm training some non-training folks to
deliver a program. This will help them move forward on
the difference between teaching and learning. Some of
your anecdotes and self evaluations wil be very useful
for me." ...Bruce Kanarek, Performance Improvement
Consultant
"My training
staff and I have been reading through the book in chunks
for discussion on our monthly conference calls. It's
been very helpful and reaffirming of our beliefs in
what training is about...what is important." ...Chris
Haid, Regional Training Manager, Wendy's International.
"I have enjoyed the book, Training
from the Heart immensely. I have
been able to use several of the concepts in my teaching
and overall changing my attitude. I am excited
and will await the next book." ...Leslie D. Hollins,
Trainer, MCI Wholesale Services
"I have been reading your book
and am very impressed. Its a great book and should be
a must read for any trainer." ...Bob Shepard, CAE
Director of Leadership Development, American Farm Bureau
Federation
"I wish Training
From The Heart had been around when I
became a trainer. The book is full of engaging stories
that will help you discover deeper meaning in your work.
You will also love what you learn about yourself and
the more comfortable, centered trainer that you will
surely become if you apply the principles of this book."
...Geoff Bellman, Consultant and Author of The Beauty
of the Beast and Your Signature Path.
"Establishing a successful learning
partnership requires trainers to move beyond the 'activity'
of training and get to the 'heart' of what drives and
inspires learning. Training From The Heart provides a practical and real-world roadmap to help
trainers harness their own passion for learning and
successfully infuse that passion into the learning environment.
This book is a must read for emerging and seasoned trainers
alike." ...Richard Chang, CEO of Richard Chang
Associates, Inc., Author of The Passion Plan,
and 1999 Chair of ASTD Board of Directors
"Training From The
Heart provides an opportunity for training
professionals to rediscover the passion within their
communities of practice. Compelling lessons for building
learning partnerships provide the impetus that enables
us to motivate and inspire learners to 'make a difference'
in their own lives and the organizations they serve."
...Judy L. Schueler, Executive Director, UCH Academy,
University of Chicago Hospitals
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The Communication Coach |
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Maxey,
Cyndi et al, The Communication Coach, Business Communication
Tips from the Pros, coloring outside the lines, 1998.
This book is a practical handbook of tips including
Cyndi's chapter on "Selling Your Ideas." Learn
to Mind the P's and Q's of persuasion, to handle the unexpected,
and to master the question/answer session. Other chapters
cover- Listening, Networking, Leadership, Conflict Management,
Taming the Media, Negotiating - and MORE!! |
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